Combating Global Warming Mind Map

An attractive concept/mind map that illustrates various human strategies for responding to climate change. It was developed by a psychologist and not by an educator or scientist but can be used to inspire discussion and artistic representations of the human dimension to climate and energy issues.

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Teaching Tips

Teaching Tips

Make this graphic into a poster and hang it in your classroom, or better yet, have students develop their own posters.

Could be used as a (pre-post) assessment tool to gauge students' understanding of a problem.

About the Science

Addresses a variety of solutions for combating global warming.

Passed initial science review - expert science review pending.

About the Pedagogy

It is best seen as an example of how mind maps can be used to summarize a number of related ideas with simple labels images and graphic design.

Very student-friendly synopsis of what one can do to reduce their carbon footprint.